A place makes a deep impression on you when you're young. It lives with you. It's like your childhood. It fertilises the… — Richard Eyre Copy Share Image
With regard to life, modern painting is a revolutionary activity…We need it in order to transform the world into a more humane… — Wifredo Lam Copy Share Image
“A good dose of fantasy is exercise for your sensibilities; it keeps your avatar strong.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“Liberty of imagination should be the most precious possession of a novelist. To try voluntarily to discover the fettering dogmas of its… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Once, America's size in the imagination was limitless. After Europeans settled and changed it, working from the coasts inland, its size in… — Ian Frazier Copy Share Image
Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common sense. — Helen Rowland Copy Share Image
Knowledge falters when imagination clips its wings or fears to use them. — John Dewey Copy Share Image
It is certainly true in the United States that there is an uneasiness about certain aspects of science, particularly evolution, because it… — Francis Collins Copy Share Image
A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
The creative process requires more than reason. Most original thinking isn't even verbal. It requires 'a groping experimentation with ideas, governed by… — David Ogilvy Copy Share Image
To me, it's far more efficient to mobilize the imagination. It's far more efficient to hear a creaking step, for example, than… — Michael Haneke Copy Share Image
The mere word freedom is the only one that still excites me. I deem it capable of indefinitely sustaining the old human… — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
As the imagination is set to look into the invisible and immaterial, it seems to attract something of their vitality; and though… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
I love roles that don't really have a template or a paradigm and force me to create using my own imagination... that… — J. August Richards Copy Share Image
“Far better, I believe, to be like children and open ourselves to every beautiful possibility, for there is nothing our hearts can… — William Kent Krueger Copy Share Image
Youth is not a time of life - it is a state of mind. It is not a matter of red cheeks,… — Samuel Ullman Copy Share Image
Why are you messing with the fantasy? We know about the reality. Don't ruin the fantasy, OK? — Anthony Michael Hall Copy Share Image
Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind's eye and you will be drawn toward it. Picture yourself… — Harry Emerson Fosdick Copy Share Image
For me, the distant future and far-off galaxies is where it's at. That's where my imagination can really come out to play. — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
“Children accept many things adults will not accept, since the world of a child is a constant revelation without any need for… — August Derleth Copy Share Image
We need enthusiasm, imagination and the ability to face facts, even unpleasant ones, bravely. We need to correct, by drastic means if… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Genre fiction was looked at as a ghetto, but I wonder now if realist fiction, sealing itself off in the glum suburbs… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Privilege, you see, is one of the great adversaries of the imagination; it spreads a thick layer of adipose tissue over our… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
